INDOPACOM, it is: US Pacific Command gets renamedDefense Secretary Jim Mattis announced Wednesday that U.S. Pacific Command would now be called U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, in the latest move to counter Chinese economic and military pressure in the region.

This is just the most recent in a long line of recalls. Last month, hundreds of thousands of eggs were called back for potential salmonella and a 35,464 pounds of ground beef was suspected to be contaminated with bits of plastic. More than 150 people have become ill from consuming romaine lettuce tainted with E. coli.

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The "Axis of Gold" Will Drive Gold Higher by the End of 2018A major blind spot in U.S. strategic economic doctrine is the increasing use of physical gold by China, Russia, Iran, Turkey and others both to avoid the impact of U.S. sanctions and create an offensive counterweight to U.S. dominance of dollar payment systems.

This single statement by a DNC official invalidated the circumstantial evidence that had been used to support the DNC's Russian hacking claims, and represents a groundbreaking contradiction that has gone unobserved by establishment press outlets.

Brazil's economy runs largely on road transport and the four-day-old strike to protest rising diesel prices was beginning to have serious consequences, with highway police reporting blocked roads in nearly all of Brazil's states.